2 papers
cs.LG2025
Observational Learning with a Budget
Shuo Wu, Pawan Poojary, Randall Berry
We consider a model of Bayesian observational learning in which a sequence of agents receives a private signal about an underlying binary state of the world. Each agent makes a dec…
cs.SI2025
Impact of Fake Agents on Information Cascades
Pawan Poojary, Randall Berry
In online markets, agents often learn from other's actions in addition to their private information. Such observational learning can lead to herding or information cascades in whic…